210: TWELVE HUNDRED MEGARAYS

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Will's been fortunate to spend a chunk of time with the new Steam Deck OLED, and now it's time to talk through both his firsthand impressions and the list of small-yet-significant upgrades Valve has made to just about everything on the device, from screen size to weight to battery life, heat and cooling, memory bandwidth, and even the color of the power button. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Hey, Brad, I've been thinking about building a render cluster.
0:04.4	As one does, two days before Thanksgiving.
0:06.8	Well, so, you know, we're in the final push on the antacruces.
0:10.2	And one of the things you do at the very end of a game dev cycle is bake a whole
0:15.1	buttload of light maps.
0:17.0	And, you know, light maps aren't like a, uh, they're, they're not as intense as they were in,
0:25.6	say, the quake days when, you know, Carmack bought a SGI workstation that took three days to
0:32.6	bake a light map on a single level or anything like that.
0:35.1	I was going to say, this has taken me back to the days of reading plan files,
0:37.9	or you're going to have to get a two CPU deck alpha to do this.
0:41.4	And then the running two CPUs, both running at 400 megahertz.
0:44.6	I'm going to tell you, I'm probably running a little bit faster than two CPUs running in 400 megahertz these days.
0:50.8	Fair. Fair.
0:51.1	But even with the 13900K and the 4090 like it takes a while to bake a map
0:58.5	light map on a on a decent size antacruces level and i was looking around i was like on my old
1:03.2	computer with a 3080 t i and then i have the kiddo's computer with a 3080 t high and uh unreal has this thing called swarm that's just built in that if I run a coordinator
1:14.5	on one of the machines and give us some hard drive space and then run the swarm client
1:20.1	and put the swarm on and Unreal on each of the other computers, then it'll just, you know,
1:27.3	do the math.
1:28.2	Yeah,
1:28.5	I thought this was going to have to be
1:29.5	some ramshackle thing
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